shush

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  1. interjection Used to express a demand for silence.
  2. transitive verb To demand silence from by saying "shush”: "Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly in church” (William Golding).

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  • "Now shush, Your Majesty," Tina said, shifting my and Marc's combined weight with no effort. —  MaryJanice Davidson - Betsy 07 - Undead and Unworthy
  • Sophie listened for the shush of the water under the hull-and made a discovery. —  A Lady of Expectations
  • ‘Leo! Leo!’ Her despairing cry rent through the hush-shush-shush of the waves, she stumbled in through them again, flinging out helpless arms to where, for a moment, they had thought that they glimpsed that helpless arm. —  Tour De Force - Christianna Brand - Cockrill 06: 1955
  • It was the merest whisper of sounds, needles sliding over one another or the shush of fabric against bark, but it shrieked against Anna's heightened senses with the force of a gale through high wires. —  Blood Lure
  • Diesel followed, the polyester straining to contain his thick thighs shush-shush-shush ing as he hurried to keep up. —  EQMM,January2006
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